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Giant planet atmospheres vary widely, JWST confirms

Researchers discovered that the atmosphere of exoplanet HD149026b, a ‘hot Jupiter’ orbiting a star comparable to our sun, is super-abundant in the heavier elements carbon and oxygen.
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Lawmakers struggle to differentiate AI and human emails

A field experiment investigating how GPT-3 might be used to generate constituent email messages showed that legislators were only slightly less likely to respond to AI-generated messages than human-generated.
Margaret Rossiter

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How Margaret Rossiter uncovered the hidden women of science

Her three-volume work, “Women Scientists in America,” sheds light on the many ways women were involved in the advancement of science, as well as how they were pushed out of the field.
Darryl Seligman

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First known interstellar interloper resembles ‘dark comet’

Insights from Oumuamua could advance our understanding of planet formation in this solar system and others.
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10 researchers named inaugural Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellows

Planning to harness the power of AI are A&S researchers from physics; ecology and evolutionary biology; chemistry and chemical biology; and neurobiology and behavior
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Imaging captures social dynamics of 'pee-shy' mice

Cornell research is shining a new light – via thermal imaging of mice – on how urine scent mark behavior changes depending on shifting social conditions.
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Semiconductor lattice marries electrons and magnetic moments

A model system created by stacking a pair of monolayer semiconductors is giving physicists a simpler way to study confounding quantum behavior.
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Cornell Center for Social Sciences names 14 faculty fellows

Several Arts & Sciences faculty members are among the 14 2023-24 fellows by the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS).
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Drones in modern war: evolutionary or revolutionary?

According to two Cornell government scholars, armed drones are neither a “magic bullet” that wins wars nor an inconsequential tool with little impact on the battlefield.
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Amara Valerio ’24 advances on ‘American Idol’

The American Studies major nailed her March 12 audition, making a childhood wish come true.
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Physics theory could be slam dunk for basketball coaches

A model based on density functional theory can suggest the best positioning for each player on the basketball court.
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Philippine study analyzes Marcos family return to power

A national survey points to theories based on continuity between former President Rodrigo Duterte and Bongbong Marcos and between the younger Marcos and the older – as well as ethnicity-based voting.
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Peace Games underscore options to war

A unique Cornell University-sponsored event in Washington, D.C. brought together congressional staff to search for nonviolent solutions to a simulated clash between superpowers.
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Dead & Co. to play benefit at Barton Hall, honoring legendary ’77 show

Remaining members of the Grateful Dead will return to play a benefit concert in Barton Hall on May 8 as part of the band’s final tour.
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Students can learn ASL during summer, winter sessions

Interest in ASL is growing, prompting Cornell to increase opportunities for students to explore the language.
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Michener advocates ‘Broadening the Tent’ at White House

Equity and effectiveness are enhanced when more voices contribute to policymaking, Prof. Jamila Michener said.
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Robot provides unprecedented views below Antarctic ice shelf

A U.S.-New Zealand research team recognized a shift as evidence of “ice pumping” – a process important to the stability of the Ross Ice Shelf.
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Clown play captures complex emotions of cognitive loss

“Heading into Night: a Clown Ode on…(forgetting),” featuring Cirque du Soleil clown Daniel Passer, who developed the play with Professor Beth Milles, premiered this month.
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Public history project reveals stories of Cornell changemakers

A new public history digital exhibition hosted by the Center for Teaching Innovation uses storytelling methods to look at Cornell’s past.
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Postcards from Earth: Hologram project showcased at Intrepid

A yearslong effort to launch Cornell-made satellite technology into a neighboring solar system is making a terrestrial stop at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City.
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Astronomers discover metal-rich galaxies in early universe

Cornell astronomers discovered a companion galaxy estimated at 1.4 billion years old while scanning images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
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Students to develop their ideas for social change

Ten enterprising Cornell students will attend the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) 2023 Annual Meeting in March.
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Nine professors win NSF early-career awards

Three Arts and Sciences professors “have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization."
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Single gene causes stinging cell to lose its sting

“This one gene controls a switch between two alternative cell fates," said Professor Leslie Babonis.
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Color coding aids evaluation of new solar tech materials

Cornell chemistry researchers discovered a method to evaluate complex materials for solar energy harvesting.
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Cornell repatriates ancestral remains to Oneida Indian Nation

The remains, unearthed in 1964, had been kept in a university archive for six decades. They were returned on Feb. 21 at a small campus ceremony.
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Life on Mars? Better tools needed to get the answer

Current state-of-the-art instrumentation being sent to Mars to collect and analyze evidence of ancient life may not be sensitive enough to make accurate assessments, says a Cornell-led study.
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Campus rallies to support Syria, Turkey earthquake survivors

With about 70 students on campus from Syria and Turkey affected by the devastation in their countries, students, faculty and administrators have mobilized to create relief efforts.
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Five early-career faculty win Sloan Research Fellowships

Assistant professors Debanjan Chowdhury, physics, and Andrew Musser, chemistry, are among 126 researchers in the United States and Canada who this year have received two-year fellowships to advance their work.
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Underwater robot helps explain Antarctic glacier’s retreat

First-of-their-kind observations beneath the floating shelf of a vulnerable Antarctic glacier reveal widespread cracks and crevasses where melting occurs more rapidly, contributing to the glacier’s retreat.
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Elusive transition shows universal quantum signatures

In the experimental metal-to-insulator transition, even a tiny amount of imperfection plays a key role in revealing the universal physics.
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Rare drought coincided with Hittite Empire collapse

An interdisciplinary collaboration used tree ring and isotope records to pinpoint a likely culprit: three straight years of severe drought in an already dry period.
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Spanish lagoon proposed as Mars ‘astrobiological time-analog’

Alberto G. Fairén led an inaugural study of a dynamic analogous Earth environment where changes can be analyzed over many years.
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Same-race reviews reduce inequality in Airbnb bookings

White guests favor Airbnb properties with white hosts, but are more inclined to rent from Black or Asian hosts if they see featured reviews from previous white guests, Cornell research finds.
Vinson Cunningham, an African American man with black beard and brown glasses wearing a black shirt and jean jacket.

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New Yorker critic wins 2021-22 Nathan Award

Vinson Cunningham, a theatre critic at The New Yorker magazine, has been named winner of the 2021-22 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.
Book cover: Singular Pasts

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When there’s an “I” in history

Enzo Traverso critiques a new trend in historical writing, in which historians place themselves in their books.
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A&S welcomes 10 new Klarman Fellows to expanded program

The fourth cohort of Klarman Fellows is the largest since the program’s launch in 2019.
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Cornell-led telescope project completion in sight

The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope “will be able to look regularly at frequency ranges very few other telescopes can even detect."
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Tweezers untangle chemotherapeutic’s impact on DNA

New research into a common chemotherapy agent is advancing the study of cancer inhibitors.
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Mating causes ‘jet lag’ in female fruit flies, changing behavior

A seminal fluid protein transferred from male to female fruit flies during mating changes the expression of genes related to the fly’s circadian clock, Cornell research has found.
Book cover: 'Bombing among friends"

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‘Bombing among friends’: Historian probes Allied raids on Italy

In WWII, two-thirds of the Italian civilian victims of Allied bombing were killed when Italy was no longer an enemy.
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Peter Gierasch, planetary astronomer, dies at 82

Gierasch contributed to a wealth of knowledge on the processes of planetary atmospheres and served as a team scientist on the Viking, Pioneer, Voyager, Galileo and Cassini missions for NASA.
Andrew Morse

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Morse named A&S Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist

Recently appointed president and publisher of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Andrew Morse ’96, a former leader at CNN, Bloomberg and ABC News, will be on campus in March and April.
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Cornell, NYSEG pilot app to help consumers moderate electricity use

The app was inspired by an A&S researcher's own electrical bills.
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Experts assess innovative Cornell election study

The researchers, including those from the government department, revealed the results from the Cornell-led 2022 Collaborative Midterm Survey Jan. 20 at an event at Cornell Tech.
Richard Kong

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A&S Klarman Fellows program renewed and expanded

Thanks to additional significant support from Seth Klarman ’79 and Beth Schultz Klarman, the Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowship program has been expanded to support 10 fellows per cohort.
 Peter Enns

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Results of innovative Cornell-led public opinion survey to be released Friday

Peter Enns is the lead investigator on the 2022 Collaborative Midterm Survey, containing answers by more than 19,000 Americans to a wide-ranging survey about political views.
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MLK's 1960s visits to Cornell still resonate today

King’s historic visit on Nov. 13, 1960, and a second, on April 14, 1961, came during a period when he was honing ideas that would take center stage at the March on Washington in 1963
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Ancient farming strategy holds promise for climate resilience

A paper by Cornell researchers suggests maslins have the unique capacity to adapt in real time to extreme weather.
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Electrochemistry converts carbon to useful molecules

Cornell chemists discovered they could produce two products used in medicinal chemistry by changing the electrochemical reactor.